 In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm: Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still-reviving fire, Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.  The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 62by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1790 - 422 pages
...Homer will shew. " In it was every art, and ev'iy charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind...sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes." POPE. This fiction, than which nothing can be more beautiful, has been happily imitated by Tasso, in... | |
 | Lazzaro Spallanzani - 1799 - 422 pages
...embroid'ry grac'd In this was ev'ry art , and ev'ry charm , To win the Wisest , and the coldest Warm : Fond love, the gentle vow , the gay desire The kind...sighs , Silence that spoke , and eloquence of eyes. POPE, uni. de Pillai, chant xif. E si dicendo , Scioglie dal petto alabastrino il cinto , Cinto il'... | |
 | 1805 - 420 pages
...resolves."' " In this was every art, and every charm " To win the wisest, and the coldest warm ; " Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, " The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, " Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, " Silence, that spoke, ^nd eloquence... | |
 | 1807 - 550 pages
...necessary. " In this was every art, and every charm, " To win the wisest, and the coldest warm ; " Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, " The kind...sighs, •' Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes." I would recommend the whole passage, which is both amusing and instructive, to the perusal of my fair... | |
 | 1807 - 514 pages
...necessary. " ta this was every art, and even- charm, " To wiu the wisest, and the coldest warm ; " Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, " The kind...still-reviving fire; " Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sight, " Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes." I would recommend the whole passage, which is... | |
 | Torquato Tasso - 1807 - 338 pages
...borrows ot" Venus. In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest and the coldest warin : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still-reviving tire, Persuasive speech, and more persuasive siglis, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes. Now... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...embroidery graced. In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, 250 Persuasive speech, and more -persuasive sighs. Silence that spoke, and eloquence... | |
 | Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...emhroidery grae'd. In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving 6re, 250 Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pages
...and the coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving fire. Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs,...Take this, and with it all thy wish, she said. With smile she took the charm ; and smiling prest The powerful cestus to her snowy breast. Then Venus to... | |
 | Torquato Tasso - 1810 - 414 pages
...fleeting hours away. Soon as Armida (so her arts requir'd) From gentle love to other cares retir'd : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind...sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes. POPE'S ILIAD, B. xir. ver. 247. The warriors, from their covert, rush'd to sight, In radiant arms that... | |
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